introduction: the aim was to assess the effects on lifestyle and lipid profile while fasting during holy month of ramadan. material and methods: an interventional cohort study designed with 160 subjects who were fasting during ramadan recruited from different mosques in kermanshah. data were collected in three stages at the beginning and at the end of ramadan as well as one month following rama...

background & aim: policosanol is a component from main alcohol groups with long-chain that extracted from cane sugar. in the present research, the effect of policosanol was investigated on decrease of lipid metabolite levels in blood of hypercholesterolemia rats. experimental: a number of 32 male wistar rats race with average weight of 250 g was divided into four groups including negative ...

introduction: sugar cane is a giant plant of grain products. regarding the benefits of the use of medications with herbal origin, in the present study the impact of sugar cane extract on atherosclerosis and ldl-c and hdl-c in the serum of hypercholesterolemic rabbits was studied. materials and methods: 24 adult male new zealand rabbits race with an average weight of 2 kg were classified into fo...

Abstract Background The optimum lipid indexes, predicting the coronary lesion in postmenopausal women are not clear. Objective To evaluate predicter for routine and advanced tests. Method 300 were enrolled assigned into heart disease (CHD) Group (242), non-CHD (58). Routine indexes measured with standard laboratory test nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. correlation predictivities C...

objective: streptozotocin (stz) destroys the beta cells of pancreas by generation of reactive oxygen species and vitamin c has documented antioxidant properties. this study was designed to evaluate the preventive effect of supplementation of diet by vitamin c on induction of stz-diabetes and its effect on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism of diabetic rats. materials and methods: fifty male wist...